Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitors from America had come to pay a courtesy call on Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his stylish wife Imelda. Dutifully diplomatic, they praised Autocrat Marcos for his leadership and vision. The President was flattered, and one of the guests continued to gush. "Looking at the way you chose your wife, I can see you're not so dumb," said Muhammad Ali. Joe Frazier flinched, but Marcos quickly counterpunched. "Looking at yours," he informed the heavyweight champ, "I can see you're not so far behind...
...Basically we're a long ball club," Midfielder Stone said about the Crimson offense. "But we've had a lot of emphasis this year on passing and developing a more stylish play. The center half will be the target man for infield passes so that it may look as though we're running out of a 5-2-3 lineup...
Meanwhile, the impact of the mine's encroachment continues to spread. Butte's population, which stood at 80,000 during the boom early in the century, has plummeted to 24,000 as many citizens fled in search of employment. More than 50 businesses have deserted the once-stylish uptown district since open-pit mining began. With the exception of one small bank building, no major construction has taken place in Butte since 1962. Arson has become common as people who are unable to sell their devalued buildings burn them for the insurance...
That is a theme Galbraith has argued many times before. Nonetheless, any new book by the retired Harvard professor and onetime (1961-63) Ambassador to India is an event-even if he is a compulsive overstater of his positions. Connoisseurs of civilized wit and stylish prose will be particularly pleased with this work. In recent books-notably Economics and the Public Purpose, published in 1973, which argued for a "new socialism"-Galbraith has seemed tediously preachy. In Money he has recovered the gently acerbic touch that he displayed as a reformist capitalist, and that made popular such books...
...their fault, and the set is not to blame, either. Cool and Spanish. Zack Brown's set is an Escher like lizard of staircases and platforms: it seems much larger than it is, more stylish than Escher, and perfectly balanced. Director Richard Edelman uses waiters, bystanders and a flamenco guitarist to keep things moving on stage, and he does it well, but the odds are stacked as relentlessly as the bullfighting metaphors...